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The latest AMD platform has introduced a new instruction called PREFETCHI. This instruction loads a cache line from a specified memory address into the indicated data or instruction cache level, based on locality reference hints. Feature bit definition: CPUID_Fn80000021_EAX [bit 20] - Indicates support for IC prefetch. This feature is analogous to Intel's PREFETCHITI (CPUID.(EAX=7,ECX=1):EDX), though the CPUID bit definitions differ between AMD and Intel. Advertise support to userspace, as no additional enabling is necessary (PREFETCHI can't be intercepted as there's no instruction specific behavior that needs to be virtualize). The feature is documented in Processor Programming Reference (PPR) for AMD Family 1Ah Model 02h, Revision C1 (Link below). Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537 Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ee1c08fc400bb574a2b8f2c6a0bd9def10a29d35.1744130533.git.babu.moger@amd.com [sean: rewrite shortlog to highlight the KVM functionality] Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.